Can I translate this to spanish? I want to use them around the place, but some of these are way too english for people to understand.
Oh and here in the office I coined what we call a "Maraña China" or "Chinese Mess" for when a code is s baly written and unformatted, that's basically unreadable or impossible to understand what it does.

Stack Overflow – like most online communities I've studied – naturally trends toward increased strictness over time. It's primarily a defense mechanism, an immune system of the sort a child develops after first entering school or daycare and being exposed to the wide, wide world of everyday sne...

Look at this incredible thing Ian Baker created. Look at it! What you're seeing is not Photoshopped. This is an actual photo of a real world, honest to God double-clawed hammer. Such a thing exists. Isn't that amazing? And also, perhaps, a little disturbing? That wondrous hammer is a de...

That's one nice article.
I live in South America (Venezuela to be more precise) and publishers refuse to accept my money (even though I am trying desperately to throw it at them)
I have been trying to buy Artemis Fowl in Ebook format since november, and a couple of Android SDK related books, since the latter are way too heavy to handle an acceptable Shipping fee (60 dollars plus tax in shipping? What are they thinking seriously is books, dead trees not gold containers!) I decided to plunk down into an eBook edition.
guess what? I can't because I am not a resident of the US of America.
So let's see here:
My green bills are as good as any others
I will have the same limitations than anyone else
The kindle has a very elegant way of screwing its customers
Why in the name of peter can't I buy the cursed books? it is because they are afraid I will build a bomb with it (¿?)
Sometimes it makes me think that we are a long way to be a modern, globalized, digital world. Way too far. You say ebooks will replace books in a couple of decades, I say they will probably never be able to replace them entirely unless publishers get their acts together and commit to publish instead of labeling everyone as a stealing pirate and mistreating their customers.
PS: Apple is crazy if they think I am paying 40 Dollars for a color 100 page eBook that only runs on a new ipad 3.

I adore words, but let's face it: books suck. More specifically, so many beautiful ideas have been helplessly trapped in physical made-of-atoms books for the last few centuries. How do books suck? Let me count the ways: They are heavy. They take up too much space. They have to be printed. ...

You dude rock so much!
I have been eyeing HomeBrewing since my trip to Bogota on 2007, there is this one place that specializes on a red lager that is ten thousand dimensions of amazing.
I just doubt I could find the ingredients here in Venezuela. maybe in 2012 I will try and follow the example Wheaton gave.
OH also, i love your writing style.

It was warm on the patio, and a gentle breeze stirred the trees in the back yard. The Postal Service played on the Sonos. A Stone Pale Ale sat on the patio table, condensation beginning to bead up on the neck and run down the bottle. Next to it, the 10 gallon cooler I’d turned into a mash tun wi...

How do you reckon I could do this in an open cubicle in a bank?
The CRT is just burning my retinas away. I tried dimming the brightness of the 20 year old screen to no avail it is still torture. At home I already tried bias lightning almost by accident (my lights are so bright, that they reflected off the screen so I moved them behind and it has proved to be quite the nice solution.
Still people that works on corporate too light with high windows places with old as fossils CRTs are doomed to not be able to see forever.

I've talked about computer workstation ergonomics before, but one topic I didn't address is lighting. We computer geeks like it dark. Really dark. Ideally, we'd be in a cave. A cave … with an internet connection. The one thing that we can't abide is direct overhead lighting. Every time the ...